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touchscreen

or touch screen

[ tuhch-skreen ]

noun

  1. a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.


touchscreen

/ tŭchskrēn′ /

  1. A monitor screen that can detect and respond to something, such as a finger or stylus, pressing on it.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of touchscreen1

First recorded in 1970–75; touch + screen
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Example Sentences

If your device has a touchscreen, here you can also adjust the visual feedback shown on the display when you tap it.

The 12-inch touchscreen is the largest in this class, and the hard-plastic surfaces and rubberized switch gear make things easy to clean.

Nowadays, most people will not even consider a phone that doesn’t have a touchscreen.

Each seat has a touchscreen next to it where passengers can adjust the climate and monitor their route and arrival time.

You can easily draw no-go lines on your phone’s touchscreen using the Neato app that the vacuum will automatically learn and follow.

Instead of pushing the cup against a mechanical lever, users push a “button” on a touchscreen.

In the 21st century, you also have to turn off the touchscreen to become human.

If you can't see yourself doing much typing on a touchscreen, the iPad's keyboard will exceed your expectations.

A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

"We're in love," the reviewer said of the Storm's touchscreen keyboard.

He takes my hand by the wrist and plants my palm on the touchscreen and a little ribbon of paper with zero-zero-one slides out.

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